Am I the worst engineer in the Silicon Valley?
Jun 24, 2021
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Sometimes when my imposter syndrome is running hot and I’m driving down the 101, I look at all the massive offices from Oracle to Rakuten to Microsoft to Google Cloud and wonder if I’m the worst engineer in the Silicon Valley. If I wasn’t, my logic reasons, wouldn’t I be working at one of these places?
Since I’m not, likely every single one of the engineers in those buildings is a better engineer than me. If you count all the buildings, that’s a whole lot of people that are better engineers than me.
So I guess here lies the question- how do you know if you’re the worst? Does anyone else feel like they’re the worst engineer in the Valley?
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And it’s all a zero-sum game. You don’t get an award at the end of your life for working in Google or Facebook. No point in comparing, as there is no end to it. After getting in one of these companies, you will look at pre-IPO folks in a certain startup rocket their TC to 1-1.5M, again you will feel sad and unhappy. So there is no end to this.
this is the jist of it. thanks for articulating this so well.
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